June 19, 2013

Post: Summertime Percona MySQL training update

… – Manchester, UK Begins Monday, June 17, 2013 , 9am – 5pm In July we have: Moving to MySQL 5.6 – Utrecht, Netherlands Begins Monday, July 1, 2013 , 9am – 5pm London, United Kingdom Begins Monday, July 15, 2013 , 9am – 5pm BST Moving to MySQL 5.6 – Orlando, FL Begins Monday, July 15, 2013 , 9am – 5pm Moving to MySQL 5.6 – Salt…

Comment: How expensive is a WHERE clause in MySQL?

If you use functions on the ‘left hand side’ of a where clause, you ignore any indexes. “and left(a, 10) = ‘2008-10-29′” should be “and ‘2008-10-29′ = left(a, 10)”

Comment: 10 years of MySQL User Conferences

…’s my memory — not for prize. I started blogging late 2008. Till then I was doing MySQL consulting in Israel, but…

Post: 10 years of MySQL User Conferences

….1.17 nonGA were the latest version at the conference. 2008 Here comes the second shock to the MySQL ecosystem: No…

Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013: It feels like 2007 again

…’t remember exactly whether it was in 2006, 2007 or 2008 — but around that time the MySQL community had one of…

Comment: SimCity outages, traffic control and Thread Pool for MySQL

… worked in SF during the week for several months) In 2008, eBay both won a Community Award and presented that the… on their first deployed MySQL system. See http://ebayinkblog.com/2008/04/15/ebay-wins-application-of-the-year-at-mysql…

Post: Percona MySQL Training Schedule for May, June, & July

… Carolina – June 18 – 21, 2012 Boston, Massachusetts - July 9 – 12, 2012 Chicago, IL – July 9 – 12, 2012 If you have never attended…

Post: Speaking on MySQL Meetup in London, July 18

…-speaker MySQL Meetup event taking place in London, 18th of July. I’ll talk about approaches to application scalability which is…

Comment: MySQL and PostgreSQL SpecJAppServer benchmark results

… different. And the MySQL response times are far better. Comment :: July 10, 2008 @ 7:09 am ********************************************************************************** I believe you’re looking at…

Post: Report from OSCON 2008

So I’m back from OSCON 2008. As usually it is fun conference to attend. Though I …